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An Israeli strike in southern Gaza killed Al Jazeera cameraman Samer Abudaqa and injured Gaza bureau chief Wael al-Dahdouh. The network believes this was a deliberate attempt to target its correspondents and their families, highlighting concerns over media censorship in the region.
An Anadolu freelance cameraman, Montaser Al-Sawaf, was killed in Israeli airstrikes in Gaza. Al-Sawaf, along with his brother and other family members, was laid to rest after being attacked in the Ed-Durc neighborhood. Anadolu's President & CEO expressed condolences and condemned the killing, highlighting the danger faced by journalists in Gaza. The Israeli army resumed attacks in Gaza, defying international calls for a cease-fire, after a one-week pause. Over 15,000 Palestinians, mostly children and women, have been killed in Israeli attacks since October 7.
Israel has ordered the evacuation of the entire population of the northern Gaza Strip, urging about 1.1 million people to move south within 24 hours, as Israeli strikes intensify and troops gather for a potential ground incursion. Hamas has dismissed the evacuation warning as psychological warfare, citing the lack of safe places to go under siege. In a separate incident, a Reuters journalist was killed in Lebanon, along with six other journalists injured, allegedly due to Israeli shelling.
An Israeli artillery strike in southern Lebanon killed a journalist and wounded several others, including reporters from Reuters, Al Jazeera, and Agence France-Presse. The journalists were clearly marked as press when they were targeted. The shelling followed an attempted infiltration of the Israeli border by a Palestinian faction. Tensions are escalating in the region, with fears of a larger conflict involving Hezbollah. In Gaza, at least six journalists have been killed since Israel began its bombardment.
Arman Soldin, a video coordinator for AFP news agency, was killed in a rocket attack near the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut while traveling with Ukrainian soldiers. The rest of the AFP team was uninjured. Soldin was born in Sarajevo and a French citizen. He had been covering the war in Ukraine since the Russian invasion in February 2022. At least 10 media workers have been killed while covering the war in Ukraine.
French journalist Arman Soldin, who worked for the AFP news agency, was killed in a rocket attack in Chasiv Yar, near the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, becoming the 15th journalist to be killed since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Soldin was with a team of AFP journalists travelling with Ukrainian soldiers when the group came under fire from Grad rockets. The rest of the team was unhurt. Chasiv Yar lies close to Bakhmut, which Russian forces have been trying to capture for nine months, seeing it as a stepping stone to other parts of eastern Ukraine.
A Ukrainian journalist working with La Repubblica was killed by Russian snipers in southern Ukraine, while his Italian colleague was injured. The incident occurred near the bridge in Kherson, where the reporters were ambushed. The Italian foreign minister is working with Ukrainian authorities to return the injured journalist to Italy. This marks the latest in a series of attacks on journalists in Ukraine since the beginning of the invasion, with at least 12 journalists and media workers killed and 18 injured.